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What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens.

The skirts of the gods Drag in our mud. We feel the touch And take it to be a kiss.

It is the individual man in his individual freedom who can mature with his warm spirit the unripe world.

Where in this small-talking world can I find A longitude with no platitude?

The dark is light enough.

We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.

Indulgences, not fulfillment, is what the world Permits us.

The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.

I know your cause is lost, but in the heart / Of all right causes is a cause that cannot lose.

Your innocence is on at such a rakish angle it gives you quite an air of iniquity.

It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us.

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

Men are strange. It's almost unexpected to find they speak English.

Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?

Day's work is still to do, Whatever the day's doom.

In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man.

The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can.

Religion
Has made an honest woman of the supernatural,
And we won't have it kicking over the traces again.

My trouble is I'm the sort of writer who only finds out what he's getting at by the time he's got to the end of it.

Has made an honest woman of the supernatural.

Coffee in England is just toasted milk.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

We are all of us lost. The best we can do is make whatever we're lost in as much like home as we can.

What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

How can a man learn navigation Where there's no rudder?

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

If we could wake each morning with no memory of living before we went to sleep, we might arrive at a faultless day.

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

One day I shall burst my bud of calm and blossom into hysteria.

How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all?

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate

How nature loves the incomplete. She knows If she drew a conclusion it would finish her.

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.

Equality is a mortuary word.